Tolkien once revealed that the Shire wasn’t pure fantasy.
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) June 10, 2026
In a letter from 1955 he described it as:
“more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of the Diamond Jubilee.”
The most beloved world in fantasy was built from ordinary English countryside memories. pic.twitter.com/GEevFWfIQU
Thomas Sowell: "There is a four-stage pattern that the anointed class use to establish an artificial crisis:
— Sowell Economics (@sowelleconomics) June 9, 2026
1: Declare a crisis!
2: Come up with a solution!
3: Unintended consequences follow.
4: Blame the unintended consequences on something else.
Examples range from… pic.twitter.com/rrBWeoaMmy
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life, because it is there that a civilization stores its memory and teaches the next generation how to think.”
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) June 11, 2026
— Henry Ward Beecher pic.twitter.com/7qqtvVxQWO
Absolute banger pic.twitter.com/fTmIfwsdDE
— Classical Studies Memes (@CSMFHT) June 9, 2026
New NAEP results are out and it’s clear the bottom has fallen out for our lowest performing math students:
— Marc Porter Magee π (@marcportermagee) June 10, 2026
The bottom 10% of students performed worse than any cohort of students on the history of the test going all the way back to the 1970s pic.twitter.com/QzSPh1O4RR
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards & its fighting done by fools."
— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) June 10, 2026
—Thucydides,
Ancient Greek historian pic.twitter.com/rdWzRX6x5c
The late, great @ScottAdamsSays once told us (paraphrasing):
— Tom Sauer (@thomasbsauer) June 8, 2026
If the odds of getting caught cheating are very low, and the consequences of getting caught are minimal, then the odds of cheating happening *somewhere* approach 100%.
Food for thought. https://t.co/Hzs2tAgaqo
I fell asleep on a train outside Kyoto. I mean really fell asleep, I was exhausted from walking all day.
— 6Ιͺx✦ (@ok6ixx) June 10, 2026
Woke up at the end of the line. Like, the actual end. The train was empty and stopped.
I panicked, grabbed my stuff, but then realized my phone wasn't in my pocket. It had…
The US has been hit by a lot of hurricanes since 1850, but the last few were caused by your SUV and cow farts pic.twitter.com/rGeO6WpNam
— Tony Heller πΊπΈ π―π΅ (@TonyClimate) June 9, 2026
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